Hey all, I just purchased a Moonlander and after using it for a day, I unplugged it and packed it back up because I noticed my muscle memory on my laptop was already deteriorating!

I want to be an ergomech user, but I also need to frequently use my laptop by itself with a standard keyboard. Is it possible to keep my muscle memory for both? Have any of you had success switching back and forth between a split ergo and a standard keyboard?

Any advice or reassurance is appreciated. This was a massive purchase for me and this issue has me very disheartened at the moment.

Update: I got it back out a couple days ago and it turns out all I needed to do was use it for a day and then sleep on it so my brain could do a firmware update. I’m back at the 70wpm I was with staggered, and yet my proficiency with staggered has only dropped about 5/10wpm.

  • @derelict
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    31 year ago

    While I still needed to think about the split ortho layout I struggled a bit going back and forth, but once I got fluent with split ortho I stopped having issues switching between them. It’s just a learning curve, you will very likely get past it.

    • @derelict
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      21 year ago

      (at least for normal typing, I do constantly mess up hotkeys when I’m not on a QMK keyboard)